Yinjaa-Barni Art

Wild Tomato Plant The Wild Tomato is one of the bush foods. It is eaten when its colour changes from green to yellow. It is also a common prickly bush.

Patterns and Colours of Life

Pilbara Country The colours in the background represent the pilbara landscape with a hint of colour piercing through representing the scattered wildflowers found all across the countryside in the evening light.

Salt Flats There are many Salt flats in the Pilbara.This painting depicts the water flowing underneath with the salt forming on top in ripples to show the movement of the ocean.

My Country The Pilbara is where my ancestors come from. The Yindjibarndi and Ngarluma people. There are many things that inspire me like the red hills and dirt, the many beautiful fresh water swimming holes, the rivers and creeks connected to them and the vibrant colours of the wildflowers that Read more…

Mulla Mulla This is the Fortescue Mulla Mulla or ‘Gumbarli’ in Yindjibarndi language. The flower is a purplish colour. It’s not a bush medicine, just a flower that grows in the country, in lines along the roads and everywhere. In this painting, the seeds of the Mulla Mulla are all Read more…

Waterholes This painting shows the many waterholes you find in the Pilbara region. Some are well known, others are hidden amongst the hills.

Colours Through The Rocks In Yindjibarndi country there are many different shaped rock formations. It looks like a truck has tipped a huge pile of rocks. At different times of the day, especially in the evening sunset, you will see the beautiful colours changing across the face of the rocks Read more…

Goanna

Yindjibarndi Country This is an aerial painting of the country I grew up on. I like to map out my country and record how I remember it. It is a document of how things were.